A benitier or benatura is a stone font or vase for containing holy water, usually placed in a niche in the chief porch or entrance oi a Roman Catholic church, some times in one of the pillars close to the door, into which the members of the congregation on entering dip the fingers of the right hand, and then cross themselves. Research Benitier
The em (em-quad) is a unit of horizontal length used in printing, based upon the width of the capital letter 'M' - hence the name. The 12-point em is a standard unit in typography, equal to 1/6 of an inch. An em rule is a horizontal line one em long (a hyphen or dash). In computing, an em is a length as wide as the font size is wide. The em is so named on account of it being equivalent to the width of the body of the letter 'M'. Research Em
Ready, Set, Go! is a powerful desktop publishing program for the Mac with a full-featured built-in word processor. The program uses a flexible grid approach. To create a document, users choose from one of eight standard grids or customize their own. Style sheets to use with any document, automatic chaining of text blocks, and interactive facing pages gives precise control over page composition and enables fast work. Ready, Set, Go! has very strong text-handling capabilities. Its full-featured word processor, similar to MacWrite includes a 100,000 word spelling dictionary a glossary, automatic hyphenation and kerning, and search-and-replace functions. Search-and-replace and make global changes are possible based on font attributes, type styles, and point sizes of up to 255 characters. Ready, Set, Go! can import formatted text files directly from MacWrite, Microsoft Word and other word processing programs. Graphics can be imported in a variety of formats or through the Clipboard. Scaling and sizing is done through a dialog box in
which positions are defined and images sized through measured units. Defining the distance at which text should wrap around an object frame is also possible through the dialog box. The built-in graphic toolbox allows boxes, lines, rules, circles, and ovals to be drawn on a document. Research Ready, Set, Go!
AceNotes is a notes manager for the IBMPC that you can use as your personal information manager and text editor. In AceNotes, notes are stored in a tree structure by which you can categorize your notes easily in whatever form you like. In this release, many new features have been added, including changing tree nodes' font and colour, auto URL detect, the ability to insert pictures, bookmark functions, file compression, auto file storage, password protection, and more. Research AceNotes
Byline by Ashton-Tate offers a style of desktop publishing for people who don't like or don't have a mouse. Not quite a WYSIWYGpackage nor a fully-fledged batch program, Byline uses a page layout system with keyboard-only interaction and instant preview. Byline uses familiar commands and keyboard sequences to lay out a page, complete with multiple columns and graphics. It can be used to integrate text and graphics from many sources including standard word processing and paint programs, dBase users can read data directly from their database and format it with Byline. Grids are used to set up pages and help create an organised document. One side of the screen displays the document while the other side contains a form which allows definition of document characteristics such as titles, borders and font style and sizes. Nearly all formatting is maintained when files are imported. Byline can edit the text with its built-in word processor which includes cut-and-paste and search-and-replace functions. Changes made to word processing documents in
Byline are reflected in the original file. Four fonts are provided. Times, Helvetica, Courier and dBase. Other fonts and typeface sizes which are available in a given printer are inaccessible. Byline's graphic editing capabilities include cropping and scaling of images. All other editing must be done in the graphics package. Especially useful is the screen capture utility which allows any screen image to be saved if it is in a graphic file format Byline can read. A demonstration disk is available. This software is designed for minor publishing requirements giving simple, effective desktop publishing facilities and which are easy to learn but flexible enough to produce good handouts, memos and the occasional newsletters. Byline will produce documents which are more readable and impressive than ordinary typed documents but not to PageMaker or Ventura Publisher standard. Research Byline
Concorde is an all-in-one graphics program for business and presentation applications. It combines text, business graphics, free-form drawing and also painting and has a slideshow capability with animation, into one integrated program. There is also a large clip-art library of images spanning almost 20 diskettes. Concorde has an image database of over 2000 symbols, maps, icons and pictures which can be incorporated into charts or you can create your own drawings. All images can be flipped, rotated or cut and pasted. The product includes a library of animations for show-time presentations. Slide shows can be created as self running or manually controlled. A library of catchy tunes is included to accompany any portion of the presentation. Concorde creates numerous graphs, including three dimensional, clustered, stacked, single and multiple line bar charts, pie and exploded pie charts, x-y, scatter, stretched and stacked icon and also multiple area graphs. You can automatically label and size any chart and can select colours and textures.
Text can be moved, copied, merged with images and graphs or saved as a text slide. Any graph can be edited horizontally and vertically or rescaled. There are fifteen medium and high resolution font styles, which can be scaled to any size. All text is proportionally spaced. Concorde reads DIF, Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony and SYLK files. You can capture any graphics or text screen with
Concorde's Capture program. While Concorde offers a multitude of presentation capabilities, its strength is in putting together PC-based slide shows. Copied to self-running disks, these shows produce effective marketing or training tools. Concorde is useful for creating tutorials or program demonstrations. Research Concorde
FileMaker II by Claris, was a database publishing tool that combined file management and form generation to give impressive visual impact. FileMaker II supported full font and size control and line and box drawing. It was a good product for generating business forms and was compatible with Macintosh networks such as ApphShare and TOPS. FileMaker II could be used to create and run scripts for automating repetitive jobs such as printing mailing labels and performing searches. Although FileMaker II was not considered a relational database, its look-up function gave it some relational attributes that let users copy data from other files when the key fields matched. Even though
FileMaker II stored all the working records on disk and not in RAM, it searched database files quickly because each word was automatically indexed. Picture fields were not indexed. Indexes enhance the speed of searches only not sorts, so large data fits took some time to complete their sorts.
FileMaker II let you generate professional-quality reports and forms using an interface similar to MacDraw. Research FileMaker II
In computing, a font is a specific typeface and type size. Thus, Arial (typeface) 12 point (type size) describes a font, and Arial 10 point describes a separate font. The term is widely mis-used as a replacement for 'typeface'. Research Font
Lotus Freelance is an integrated-graphics program that gives charting capabilities and lets you add text and graphic images to presentations. With the various tools provided, you can create presentations that include organization charts, text charts, logos, diagrams, business graphs, and free-form drawings. Lotus Freelance includes a Portfolio feature that assists you in planning, organising, previewing, and printing multiple files. If you have created graphs within your spreadsheet, Freelance can enhance them with symbols, text, diagrams, and icons. Graphics may be edited by changing the size, colour, fill pattern, line type, and font. Objects may be copied, moved, replicated, deleted, undeleted, turned, flipped, and joined into a single symbol which can then be edited as a single object. Freelance automatically scales, sizes, and formats its charts. You can create high-quality graphics by using Freelance's drawing aids such as grids, rulers, over 40 templates, or by merging any of over 700 library symbols into any diagram or drawing. You can even create special symbols such as your company logo. Freelance's uniquedrawing area lets you keep frequently used symbols on one page and import them to your graph on the other page with a single keystroke. Freelance is similar to drawing programs because it is object-oriented rather than a bit-mapped. It recognizes the pieces of your image as unique objects and manipulates and modifies objects in a way similar to stand-alone drawing programs. For example, Freelance understands that a piechart created in Lotus 1-2-3 is made up of individual slices that can be edited individually. The product has its own basic charting capabilities for creating 12 chart types including pie, bar, line, mixed, exploded, table, bar-line, XY scatter, high-low-close text, and multiple charts. Data entry is consistent across all chart types. A built-in chart composition system automatically adjusts data driven chart layouts to accommodate data, even when it changes. Freelance is a WYSIWYG program that lets you accurately preview graphics files
on-screen. The WYSIWYG preview displays colours and font attributes, as well as true placement of graphics elements on the page. Freelance includes Datalinks and Visible Data Import that creates a lasting link between a chart form and a spreadsheet, database, ASCII, or SYLK file. When a chart file is retrieved, you can choose to have it automatically updated with the latest data for the source file. Research Lotus Freelance
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